On Demand

The workshop will provide an educational, factual backdrop to the policy debates which will be the focus of the IGF. Many people in the civil society and intergovernmental spheres, whose interest in Internet governance is relatively recent, are potentially disadvantaged in fully participating in the debate by the abstruse technical terminology and concepts. This workshop will serve as a laypersonís introduction to the topology of the Internet, providing definitions and explanations for key terms like transit, peering, hot-potato, exchange point, root and top-level domain name server, routing and forwarding, and the International Standards Organizationís seven-layer protocol model. [
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